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I've been watching the build up for this program for sometime. I don't know what some people think! doesn't anyone know what OP-SEC means!!!!Rest assured it will not help people see prepping in a new light! I predict it willl only highlight us as "redneck wackjobs" I can't for the life of me understand why someone would agree to being on this show............
They'd better be really, reeeally careful about convening in Columbia, SC, and bragging about what they have in public.
There are a LOT of entitlement mavens in that area who would love to know where and what someone has....and would actually take the trouble to remember them.
Not to mention that some governments there will actively seek out "volunteers" to house and feed those escaping a disaster - hurricane prep taught them that. Some are less volunteer than others...
I hope the show does justice on letting them explain why they prep hard. The last show a few months ago was week on that. I think last show preppers were a bit unbalanced. One urban prepper I seen thinks he's gonna Gangster his way through survival with just machine guns and a custom doom buggy. lol.
I was watching a little bit. Not impressed with it, although maybe it was only that short segment that was bad. The guy who spoke about carrying a personalized survival pack and foraging for food was clueless. He had some good knowlege( maybe) about edible wild plants but otherwise seemed pretty clueless when he spoke about trading for goods and getting food.
I was, for the most part, disappointed with the portrayal of these preppers. Could they have done anything MORE to make them look like freak shows!?! GEEZ!
I was, for the most part, disappointed with the portrayal of these preppers. Could they have done anything MORE to make them look like freak shows!?! GEEZ!
It looks to me National Geographic did the show to discredit prepper concerns and reasoning. Notice in those 2 hours there were 6 or 7 different reasons they prepped and at the end of each one of them the commentry pulled some misleading (if not totally false) figure to make the preppers look fanatical and crazy.
The show cleverly leaves the biggest most common concern (economic collapse) for the end of the show to leave viewers with a lasting impression that everything is fine.
I thought it was funny that girl who wanted to go to Mexico in a bugout situation, lol, in that case she should've prepped her spanish and how to survive on burritos with one eye open at night. She would stick out like a sore thumb.
That LA man had a very weak food plan. I think he should do a real-practise for 1 month surviving off only plants and dirty birds and fish, in LA I'd be scared of catching a disease. And he had no firearm, maybe he did but not on the show since he lives in cali.
I was, for the most part, disappointed with the portrayal of these preppers. Could they have done anything MORE to make them look like freak shows!?! GEEZ!
I saw the show for the first time 2/07/12, two back-back episodes. PT Barnum would have smiled. National Geographic used to show very good programs, and this one was disappointing, to the point of being ridiculous. They made those 'preppers' all look like retards. (ignore the political incorrectness).
Testing their container-built house with a .22?
I think this is essentially a spin-off of the show 'Hoarders', but with the collections being food and a false sense of security.
(No flames please, but I got the impression that virtually every woman on that show had sufficient caloric reserves to not need to stockpile food for months, and a few of the guys didn't need to either).
Well, I watched it. I want that hour of my life back.
I watched the Nat Geo show last night and couldn't help but notice that a large number of the people show were morbidly obese. These people are far more likely to die from a heart attack or diabetes than a calamity cause by the earth's magnetic fields reversing. I'm sure there is a fancy term for people who are obsessed with highly unlikely events while ignoring far more likely things. Maybe they are just trying to distract themselves from their everyday problems by imagining themselves as a central player in grandiose world events.
Maybe they are just trying to distract themselves from their everyday problems by imagining themselves as central players in grandiose world events.
We have a few people like that right here.
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